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Our Story

DynamiCare Health is a digital therapeutics and coaching company that helps people overcome addiction to drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. Centered around motivation and accountability, DynamiCare challenges and empowers individuals to change their lives for the better. 

DynamiCare Health was founded in 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts by Eric Gastfriend, Harvard MBA tech executive, and his father, David Gastfriend MD, an international expert in addiction psychiatry. DynamiCare has raised over $6 million in equity funding, $5 million in grants/prizes, and is used by treatment programs, academic research institutions, and health plans across the U.S. DynamiCare's partners include Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, Vermont Medicaid, ComPsych, Spring Health, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and University of Vermont, among others. 

DynamiCare’s mission is to build evidence-based products and services to help one million people overcome addiction.

DynamiCare's innovative work has been recognized through numerous grants and awards, including 4 NIH grants, the Ohio Opioid Technology Challenge, the 2020 Anthem Fast Track to Scale Accelerator, the 2018 Harvard Business School Alumni New Venture Competition, and a 2019 New York Times Good Tech Award. DynamiCare has been featured by various news outlets, including the NY Times, WSJ, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and CBS News.

 

Our Leadership

The DynamiCare Health team is a diverse group of addiction healthcare experts and world-class technology innovators who have come together to solve one of the greatest public health challenges of our time.

 
 
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Co-Founder & CEO

ERIC Gastfriend, MBA

Eric Gastfriend is a social entrepreneur and Co-Founder and CEO of DynamiCare Health, a digital platform for motivating and monitoring health and recovery from substance use. DynamiCare has won awards from the Harvard Business School Alumni New Venture Competition, Ohio Opioid Technology Challenge, and National Institutes of Health. Eric manages DynamiCare Health’s strategy, operations, and fundraising. He earned his B.A. magna cum laude from Brown University and MBA from Harvard Business School.

 
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Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer

David Gastfriend, MD, DFASAM

An addiction psychiatrist, Dr. Gastfriend has held clinical, research, technology development, and policy roles. At Harvard, he directed Massachusetts General Hospital’s Addiction Research Program. As VP at Alkermes, he directed scientific communications on Vivitrol. His research led most U.S. states to endorse the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Criteria. His 150 publications include The ASAM Criteria and Addiction Treatment Matching. His ASAM Criteria CONTINUUM® software is being adopted nationwide. He has consulted to the governments of Belgium, China, Iceland, Israel, Norway, Russia, and the US.